Sunday, April 30, 2006
Wishes, Dreams, and Goals
I registered for a marathon yesterday. The registration deadline is tomorrow, so that kind of pushed me past the vacillating I have done about the decision. This particular marathon selects participants by a lottery, so I will not actually know if I have been accepted until next week. As I wait to hear, and as summer draws closer, I feel the twinges of excitement that accompany setting and planning for a new running goal.
Parents and teachers have encouraged me to set goals my whole life. At times I balked and rebelled at conforming to what I perceived to be an inflexible regimen. But as I matured, I began to see that dreams and goals are fundamental in making progress. They fire the imagination and furnish the impetus that is necessary to achieve success.
While some goals in my life remain long-term and constant, I alter and adjust others. Ten years ago I would not have considered running a marathon. But a mere thought planted in a fertile mind developed into a wish, grew into a dream, and finally burgeoned into a hardy, solid goal. I completed my first marathon in 2000.
Now my goal is to finish ten marathons, and I am three shy. My creaky knees remind me that there is a limit to my marathon madness, and that I may not be physically able to reach this number. Even so, in the 26.2 mile long run coming up in October, I hope to come a little closer to keeping that ambition alive.
Parents and teachers have encouraged me to set goals my whole life. At times I balked and rebelled at conforming to what I perceived to be an inflexible regimen. But as I matured, I began to see that dreams and goals are fundamental in making progress. They fire the imagination and furnish the impetus that is necessary to achieve success.
While some goals in my life remain long-term and constant, I alter and adjust others. Ten years ago I would not have considered running a marathon. But a mere thought planted in a fertile mind developed into a wish, grew into a dream, and finally burgeoned into a hardy, solid goal. I completed my first marathon in 2000.
Now my goal is to finish ten marathons, and I am three shy. My creaky knees remind me that there is a limit to my marathon madness, and that I may not be physically able to reach this number. Even so, in the 26.2 mile long run coming up in October, I hope to come a little closer to keeping that ambition alive.
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Good luck with your marathon, Cyppy, glad it's not one of MY goals! And I couldn't help but notice that you deviated slightly from the norm with your last sentence this time... but you still got it in there!
Having the goal to complete ten marathons is impressive all by itself. What facinates me is all the short-term goals you have had to set, and achieve, just to accomplish the goal of running one marathon! Creaky knees aside, it appears you have the "right stuff" to turn your goal into reality!
Best of luck!!
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Best of luck!!
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